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Taxpayers are NOT bailing out Ford Motor, or are we?

Taxpayers are NOT bailing out Ford Motor, or are we?Not quite the sameSo, Ford presents a plan to develop and implement new technology in their vehicles to improve efficiency and competitiveness, thereby securing a loan from the DOE.GM goes to Washington, along with the UAW, and begs for money to...

Tags: Government, Personal finance, taxpayer, Socialists, TAXPAYERS, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

Student free speech vs. taxpayer rights

Student free speech vs. taxpayer rightsThere are several issues at work hereFirst, the philosophy that all ideas have equal merit. It isn't true. A film that labels itself XXX (the MPAA doesn't give XXX ratings; it's done for promotional purposes by the movie maker) has zero merit. There is no...

Tags: Free Speech, Taxpayer, taxpayer

Discussion threads 2009-04-08

Should health care rationing be binary or analog?

Should health care rationing be binary or analog?Who pays for healthcare???.Who is really paying health insurance aka disease care in America.Folks lets check the facts and do the math and you will find it is us the taxpayer paying 100% of it all.1. The "Private Sector" as the republicans so...

Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Vertical industries, payroll solutions, health care, health insurance, taxpayer

Discussion threads 2008-10-16

Hollywood preps new copyright bills

Hollywood preps new copyright billsMy favorite part... is the civil forfeiture. This gets completely around the whole business of proving that a user actually committed copyright infringement and goes straight for the router, computer, etc. presumptively involved.Our County Sheriff and Prosecutor have been funding a lot of their operations...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, civil forfeiture, tax, forfeiture, taxpayer

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

Text messages bust mayor for adultery, perjury

Text messages bust mayor for adultery, perjuryTech TalkIt is amazing how just some people still don't get the point. Technology is here and here to stay. In your face, in your pocket, in your "hands".Duh!RE: Text messages bust mayor for adultery, perjuryIt is ludicrous to permit the civil lawsuit against...

Tags: taxpayer, immunity

Discussion threads 2008-01-25

Thank you, taxpayer, for building my new nuc

Thank you, taxpayer, for building my new nucEvery man, woman, child for himselfThe nuclear renaissance reminds me of the Titanic; all the media was saying how unsinkable the ship was, then it sank!So far I've read the argument by both sides of the issue: safety , terrorist threats, nuclear proliferation,...

Tags: Government, Taxes, Free trade, Games, renaissance, reactor, new nuc, nuc, taxpayer, nuclear energy, uranium

Discussion threads 2007-10-08

Changing the way we find, reference, and talk about the law

Changing the way we find, reference, and talk about the lawSaying it doesn't make it so...If Mr. Malamud is responsible for prodding the SEC into developing EDGAR for the American people, I give him great respect and admiration. We use it several times a day and so do many investors.But...

Tags: taxpayer, Malamud, John Markoff

Discussion threads 2007-08-23

On tax day, phishers rush to scam filers

Andrew Eristoff, commissioner of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, received an email on his government computer recently. It was a phishing email, telling him that the IRS needed his personal information in order to process his tax refund. CNN reports: "It's a reflection of how brazen...

Tags: phishing, tax, e-mail, taxpayer

Blog posts 2006-04-17

Senators pushing for free electronic filing

Why do you have to pay for tax preparation software or use a tax preparer in order to file your return electronically? "All the forms and instructions are free, so why do we force taxpayers to pay a preparer or buy software to file electronically?" Sen. Baucus asked in a...

Tags: tax, Internal Revenue Service

Blog posts 2006-04-12

IRS gets high mark for tax-time website

So this is the new IRS. The agency that for years acted like it was taxpayers' problem to deal with the agency's bureaucracy now runs a website getting high marks for customer satisfaction. In the University of Michigan's quarterly customer satisfaction index, IRS.gov scored 73 out of 100, five points...

Tags: Web site, Internal Revenue Service

Blog posts 2006-03-24

Privacy groups attack IRS rules on sale of tax data

Privacy advocates are taking aim at recently revealed IRS rules on the sale of tax information, the Washington Post reports. The proposal, issued in December, was billed by the IRS as improving privacy protections for taxpayers, detailing the steps for getting permission to use the information. But...

Tags: Internal Revenue Service, taxpayer

Blog posts 2006-03-23

Have you heard the one about the $200B hole in taxpayers' pockets?

Have you heard the one about the $200B hole in taxpayers' pockets?I have your answer!!Ummm, no one really. Well that isn't true, but who is going to be honest enough to say they got a piece of that $200 billion to not look very close???Tax Cuts given to Corporations...

Tags: taxpayer

Discussion threads 2006-02-08

Verizon sends me rebuttal to charges by Wireless Philadelphia's Neff

Verizon sends me rebuttal to charges by Wireless Philadelphia's NeffWe're blowing it.I hope Philly gets Earthlink on the scene and more cities follow. We have no real competition in this country. We're, what, 16th globally for high-speed access? Other countries are blowing us away in connection speed...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Telecom & Utilities, Free trade, Other Countries, taxpayer, Verizon Communications Inc., Comcast Corp., Neff

Discussion threads 2005-10-19

City's fiber project goes to a vote

City's fiber project goes to a votelocal rightsif the citizens of a community want to take the risk of creating a network, then why shouldn't they be given the opportunity. The federal government needs to "step away from the car". As long as access is not limited by local governments...

Tags: Vertical industries, Network technology, Nothing, network, government, fiber, Lafayette, local government, taxpayer, voter

Discussion threads 2005-07-16

New tax for broadband customers?

New tax for broadband customers?Waiter...Check Please!Who's being left out?My parents, living in rural Pennsylvania, where the dairy cows outnumber the residents, had both DSL and cable broadband available to them a full year before I had cable broadband available to me in a suburb of a 100K person city. ...

Tags: Taxes, Network technology, Broadband Internet, Free trade, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, taxpayer, Big Business, broadband, tax, DSL, cable, rural area, phone, government, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-07-01

Philly, Verizon reach accord on city Wi-Fi plan

Philly, Verizon reach accord on city Wi-Fi planWhat should taxpayer's money be used forWhat should taxpayer's money be used for if not to help taxpayers? I don't know much about the Chicago-based Heartland Institute but my guess is that it's major function is to help support big business. So surprise!...

Tags: taxpayer, Philly, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-12-01

S.F. mayor: A wireless click in every port

S.F. mayor: A wireless click in every portIt ain't freeThe bloody taxpayers are going to pay for the service through taxes.NPR storyHeard a story about the Wi-fi at the SF ballpark (whatever it's called now...it'll always be Candlestick) on NPR a few weeks ago. Their funny take on it...

Tags: Wi-Fi, S.F. Mayor, wireless, taxpayer

Discussion threads 2004-10-22

Additional Resources

Cap and trade controversial in Australia

This is what happened:An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored.The new Inquisition: dare to raise your voice against the enviro-whackos and they get all angry.CEC FAILs againCEC claims: [i]"An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored."[/i]He wasn't censored for disagreeing with the global...

Tags: theory, CEC, global warming, Cap-and-Trade, carbon dioxide, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday

China made productsYES all we need is more 'Made In China' to get the economy churning....Bring it home to 'China' no longer USA because we are like Rome we manufacture nothing, we import everything and borrowing TRILLIONS from China.How long will this last I would say as long as they...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, HDTV, manufacturing, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

GOP will present a health care bill

Good startGood work Dana. This blog is not biased to the left (we'll see how you fare in the talkbacks though).There's of course still the question why you put politics on this IT tech site."ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals. Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, IT Pros, health care, No., Pelosi, GOP

Discussion threads 2009-11-03